Beschreibung:
Analyzes the practice of informal adoption and child circulation between communities in Peru, showing how these historical practices respond to and are constrained by state and international efforts to concretize family and love.
About the Series viiAcknowledgments ixA Note on Translation xiiiIntroduction: Moving Children in Ayacucho 11. Ayacucho: Histories of Violence and Ethnography 212. International Adoption: The Globalization of Kinship 373. Puericulture and Andean Orphanhood 614. Companionship and Custom: The Mechanics of Child Circulation 815. Superación: The Strategic Uses of Child Circulation 1056. Pertenecer: Knowledge and Kinship 1347. Circulating Children, at Home and Abroad 154Glossary 163Notes 165Bibliography 195Index 213